Swallows

Violet-green Swallow - Peach Cliff, BC This is one of the two green swallows found in British Columbia for the summer. The second is a Tree Swallow. There are three distinct features that separate the two birds with two visible here in this picture. The first is the white on the face extends up and over the eye where as the white stays below the eye in the Tree swallow. Secondly, the color of the back is more a metallic forest green while the tree swallow is a metallic blue-green. This was taken just south of Okanagan Falls below Peach Cliff. Michael W Klotz 2021 - www.TheBirdBlogger.com Picture
Violet-green Swallow - Peach Cliff, BC
Tree Swallow - Iona Beach Regional Park, BC Our first splash of color here in Metro Vancouver came as a Tree Swallow and some apple flower buds. Along the walk between the two ponds at Iona Beach Regional Park there are a couple of nest boxes that house very content tree swallows. This male was protecting his hard won swallow home from an apple tree feet from the nest box on a stick. Tree swallows are the first of our migrating swallows and always mean that spring is here. Michael W Klotz 2021 - www.TheBirdBlogger.comPicture
Tree Swallow - Iona Beach Regional Park, BC
Tree Swallow Pair - Iona Island, BC Mine! A mated pair of Tree Swallows have claimed a nesting box on the big pond at Iona Island. Every year, the coming of spring brings these little blue acrobats back from the south. They look very similar to the Violet-green swallows that come back at the same time but the two main differences are that the Tree Swallows eyes are in the color and the white that extends up their rump is less and does not look like it almost connects. Michael W Klotz 2021 - www.TheBirdBlogger.com Picture
Tree Swallow Pair - Iona Island, BC
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Tree Swallow - Maplewood Flats, BC